Sean Cox is an Assistant Professor in the mathematics department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Cox’s research interests are in forcing, combinatorial set theory, inner model theory, and applications of set theory.

Much of his research focuses on the structure of normal, $\sigma$-complete ideals, such as the nonstationary ideal on a regular uncountable cardinal. He is particularly interested in generic elementary embeddings arising from such ideals and towers of ideals. This topic is central to most branches of set theory, including large cardinals, forcing, and inner model theory.

His results include both relative consistency results (using both forcing and inner model theory), as well as the theory of Martin’s Maximum and the Proper Forcing Axiom.

Sean obtained his PhD at the University of California, Irvine in 2009 under the supervision of Martin Zeman. He was a postdoc at the University of Muenster (Germany) from 2009-2012.

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# Recent and upcoming talks by Sean Cox

## 2011 CMS Winter Meeting, December 10 – 12, 2011

Saturday December 10 10:00 – 10:25 Slawomir Solecki 10:30 – 10:55 Aleksandra Kwiatkowska 11:00 – 11:25 Samuel Coskey 14:00 – 14:25 Martin Zeman 14:30 – 14:55 Grigor Sargsyan 16:00 – 16:25 James Cummings 16:30 – 16:55 Dima Sinapova 17:00 – 17:25 John Krueger Sunday December 11 8:30 – 8:55 Claude Laflamme 9:00 – 9:25 Assaf Rinot 9:30 – 9:55 Juris Steprans 14:00 – 14:25 Asger Tornquist 16:00 – 16:25 Itay Neeman 16:30 – 16:55 Sean Cox 17:00 – 17:25 Justin Moore Additional two events for Friday, December 9th: ** 9am-12pm: CMS meeting mini course Bahen, room 1240 Speaker: Dima Sinapova (Irvine) Tittle: Large cardinals and Prikry type forcing (outline attached) ** 1:30pm-3pm: Toronto set theory seminar Fields, room 210 Speaker: Hugh Woodin (Berkeley) Title: The HOD Conjecture Sinapova minicourse outline.pdf continue reading…